Avi Asher-Schapiro

Avi Asher-Schapiro is a graduate student at NYU and a freelance journalist based in Brooklyn. He was a Research Associate at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University and a 2011–2012 Fulbright Fellow in Cairo, Egypt. His work has appeared in Salon, Vice, and Jacobin, among other publications.

In 1963, after the publication of Eichmann in Jerusalem, Gershom Scholem and Hannah Arendt exchanged a series of tense letters. Scholem, a renowned scholar of Jewish mysticism and himself a critic of ...